7rcTIX1xP

The Fourth Lesson: The Unity of Life.769
personality as merely the costume and trappings of the part in the play of
life that he is acting out, and he knows that when he discards them he will
still be “I.”
When one really feels the consciousness of the One Life underlying,
he acquires a confident trust and faith, and a new sense of freedom and
strength comes to him, for is he not indeed delivered from the bondage of
fear that has haunted him in his world of separateness. He feels within him
the spiritual pulse of the Universal Life, and at once he thrills with a sense
of new-found power and being. He becomes reconciled with Life in all its
phases, for he knows these things as but temporary phases in the working
out of some great Universal plan, instead of things permanent and fixed
and beyond remedy. He begins to feel the assurance of Ultimate Justice
and God, and the old ideas of Injustice and Evil begin to fade from him.
He who enters into the consciousness of the Universal Life, indeed enters
into a present realization of the Life Everlasting. All fear of being “lost” or
“eternally damned” fades away, and one instinctively realizes that he is “saved”
because he is of the One Life and cannot be lost. All the fear of being lost
arises from the sense of illusion of separateness or apartness from the One
Life. Once the consciousness of Unity is gained, fear drops from the soul like
a wornout garment.
When the idea and consciousness of the Unity takes possession of one,
he feels a new sense of cheerfulness and optimism entirely different from
any other feeling that he has ever experienced. He loses that distrust and
hardness which seems to cling to so many in this age who have arrived at the
Intellectual stage of development, and have been unable to progress further.
A new sense of peace and harmony comes to one, and illuminates his entire
character and life. The bitterness engendered by the illusion of separateness
is neutralized by the sweetness of the sense of Unity. When one enters into
this consciousness he finds that he has the key to many a riddle of life that
has heretofore perplexed him. Many dark corners are illuminated—many
hard sayings are made clear. Paradoxes become understandable truths, and